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Michael Fassbender: The Theme of “Prometheus”

prom3 — Michael Fassbender in Prometheus courtesy 20th Century Fox

The countdown to Prometheus is escalating. Michael Fassbender tells The Sci Fi Show in a new interview how the cast including Noomi Rapace, Idris Elba and Charlize Theron became part of Ridley Scott’s return to science fiction.

“There’s always politics within, and that’s why, I think, this cast got together. The tempo, the pace, the intelligence of the script; each person has got their own agenda on that ship and it’s each a very individual agenda. Some people are there for the pay. Other people are there to get answers. Other people are there to hopefully attain some sort of secret. Others are there in somewhat of a spite journey. You’ve got all these collective relationships, individuals and motivations and that’s what makes quite intriguing even before the shit hits the fan.”

I wanted to share this quote from Fassbender on the theme of the epic.

“It’s basically about trying to find out if there was intervention in the birth of civilisation on planet Earth by other beings, which we come to know as Engineers, and whether they had a master plan in mind for us.”

Thanks to Dark Horizons.

New “Prometheus” Starmap Photos

The starmap is just one the many geek freakout inducing images coming from Prometheus, the Ridley Scott directed return to the Alien universe. Now an awesome collection of images from the film can be found on a facebook app with an interactive starmap. Thanks to Dark Horizons for capturing.

prom1 — Charlize Theron in Prometheus courtesy 20th Century Fox

Charlize Theron plays a Weyland corporate officer named Meredith Vickers.

The Prometheus crew explore the alien vessel from Alien?

prom4 — Idris Elba in Prometheus courtesy 20th Century Fox

Idris Elba as the Captain (?) of Prometheus

Michael Fassbenderder as the android David of Prometheus.

prom5 — Prometheus courtesy 20th Century Fox

The Prometheus landing on the alien planet

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Michael Fassbender explores the alien ship in Prometheus.

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“Prometheus” Ridley Scott on the Space Jockey

Prometheus Empire Cover — Prometheus cover of Empire Magazine May 2012

Prometheus marks Ridley Scott’s return to the Alien universe. In an upcoming issue of Empire the director reveals his passion to return to explore the back story especially the Space Jockey – an obsession of mine too.

“[I’ve wanted to revisit it for] years! Years, years, years,” he stresses of Alien‘s space traveller subplot. “I always wondered when they did [Aliens] 2,3 and 4 why they hadn’t touched upon that, instead of evolving into some other fantastic story. They missed the biggest question of them all: who’s the big guy? And where were they going? And with what? Why that cargo? There’s all kinds of questions.”

Prometheus is out June 1st. The Empire issue is out March 29th.

“Prometheus” Talking Empire Cover

Prometheus star Noomi Rapace is gracing the cover of the May issue of Empire Magazine. The cover proclaims Ridley Scott’s return to the Alien universe as “the movie of the year.”

The cover comes with its own special effects: Empire promotes that their holographic cover will shout “We were so wrong!” at you when you open it.

That’s the line from Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Rapace) from the trailer which you can see again below:

Michael Fassbender on “Prometheus” and the “Alien” Essence

michael-fassbender-prometheus_main — Michael Fassbender in Prometheus courtesy 20th Century Fox

At the Empire Awards Michael Fassbender spoke with Red Carpet News TV about his role in Prometheus. The interviewer asked if the star playing an android saw anything from the previous Alien films on set.

“There are certain elements of the spaceship. There are threads of it there, there’s almost an aftersmell of it in the air, there’s the essence of it there,” Fassbender said.

You can see the interview below including a joke about wearing Magneto’s helmet from X-Men: First Class.

Fassbender is playing an android named David. You can see a “commercial” for his character here. His android voice in the trailer is still chill inducing because you know David has “special” programming from “the company!”

Prometheus TV Spot

Prometheus Pic — image courtesy Weyland Industries

You may have noticed I’m obsessed with Prometheus! Ridley Scott’s return to the world of Alien is everywhere. Here’s the latest TV spot in case you missed it. I saw the trailer on the big screen in front of The Hunger Games. IFC aired Alien last night and I watched extra close as the Nostromo crew looked at the Space Jockey. Thanks to The MovieBox.Net for the tv spot below. Enjoy!

Inside the Company Behind The “Prometheus” Mission

What’s more dangerous than the monstrous creatures of the Alien universe? How about the ruthless company that will stop at nothing to turn the xenomorphs into a profitable bio weapons? Now you can get an insider look into the notorious corporation from the Alien films.

The TED corporate video starring Peter Weyland revealed the connection between Ridley Scott’s Alien and Prometheus. Now you can “Invest In Your Future” and see the investor section of Weyland Industries.

Once inside scroll down to see the development of the company’s android. The 8th version of “David” is a crew member on Prometheus and will be played by Michael Fassbender. You can see a Weyland commercial for David 8 here.

Prometheus Sequel?

The Prometheus promotion mission continues at full blast. Director Ridley Scott hinted at a sequel at big presentation as Wondercon this weekend.

“If we’re lucky, maybe we’ll have a second part because at the end of Prometheus, the film does leave some nice, big, open questions.” He also sounds very glad to be back in this genre again – “I’ll certainly do another science film as soon as possible. One of the trickiest things is: How original are you going to be?”

Michael Fassbender and Charlize Theron answered fan questions via Yahoo. He plays the android David. She plays Weyland officer Meredith Vickers. You can watch them below.